Quotes About Emergency

If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'

A crisis, by its very nature, is a negative event.

If bingeing on bad emergency-room-themed television has taught me anything, it's that crisis situations bring out the best and worst in people.

The state of emergency and critical nature of the times do not allow me, as they do not allow anyone, to embark on a blame game.

Now the ambulance is always ready; the paramedics are always ready. People in the crowd can get help without risk. If you look at the Fabrice Muamba case, this is what helped save his life - the paramedics are there.

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.

It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well - whether it's getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting together a community kitchen to feed everybody for the next few months.

I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.

In the digital age, it is easier than ever to publish false information, which is quickly shared and taken to be true - as we often see in emergency situations, when news is breaking in real time.

I will say this: in a state of emergency operations decisions are taken by the commissioner. It's not for politicians to interfere.

A topologist enters a coffee shop, orders coffee and a doughnut, and is served. Preoccupied with topological theorems, he takes a bite out of his coffee cup and has to finish his thoughts in a nearby emergency ward. His mistake is somewhat understandable as a doughnut and coffee cup are topologically equivalent

he were in a shark tank and reached up to me for help, I'd throw chum in the water.

The rain was nothing more than the emergency sprinkler system gone wild. All this trouble could be easily explained: the sprinklers malfunctioning. Maleficent had done her job well.

The airline oxygen masks don't really help you. They're just there to muffle the screams.

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

Department of Defense" ever won a war; see the histories. But it seems to be a standard civilian reaction to scream for defensive tactics as soon as they do notice a war. They then want to run the war—like a passenger trying to grab the controls away from the pilot in an emergency.

Scott slapped on their flashers, and pushed out of their car. The flashers painted the street and surrounding buildings with blue kaleidoscope pulses. Stephanie

Breathing hurt. He thought he might be bleeding to death, but he didn't have time to die. Pike

Sometimes loneliness is an emergency situation

so we shot him up with antibiotics and glued shut a slashed vein in the groin that was sure to kill him.

Clearly we're Sorceri. Sabine gestured at her resplendent self. Ergo, we'd enjoy some Sorceri wine. Don't got it. Sabine quirked a red brow. Do you not? Check with Erol, shifter. He'll have an emergency bottle for me--because whenever I arrive, it's an emergency.

Tesla will produce two models of the self-driving car: the Tesla Altruist and the Tesla Egoist. In an emergency, the Altruist sacrifices its owner to the greater good, whereas the Egoist does everything in its power to save its owner, even if it means killing the two kids.

Climate change may be far beyond the concerns of people in the midst of a life-and-death emergency, but it might eventually make the Mumbai slums uninhabitable, send enormous new waves of refugees across the Mediterranean, and lead to a worldwide crisis in healthcare.